Kano Bus Park Blast Scene to be Converted to Islamic School-as Igbo community cries foul

The Kano State Government is bent on converting the scene of the bus station bomb blast into an Islamic school. Governor Rabiu Kwakwanso had earlier told the Igbo traders and transporters who built and developed the park to relocate to another place to give way to another Islamic school in the place. The governor, to buttress the seriousness of his threat, had earlier blocked the back gate of the luxury bus park towards the New Road/ Ibo Road junction and commenced clearing of the site and building of sections of the Islamic school.

A day before the bus station blast which killed over 65 Igbo travelers, the governor sent some thugs and state security outfit to the place to warn the traders and bus owners to vacate the place immediately or face bloody consequences. The Igbo communities were preparing to send a delegation to beg the governor to change his mind on the day the bomb exploded. Governor Kwakwanso is yet to either visit or send any top government official to condole the Igbos who lost lives and properties including five luxurious buses in the inferno but had visited Borno State and donated N100 million naira to victims of Baga incidence.

The Igbo leaders noted that on the day the blast occured, none of the Muslim indigenous workers at the site of the Islamic school and other sites around the bus station reported for work, fueling suspicion that the locals were pre-informed about the bomb blast . There is an allegation that Governor Kwakwanso told aides that the blast was Allah’s way of driving away his enemies and paving way for the Islamic school.
This was contained in a secret report the Ohaneze follow up team to Kano set up after the earlier visit of the Ohaneze leadership sent to select Igbo leadership . The follow up team discovered that there was no single security at the luxury bus park as at the time of their arrival and were worried that another blast could easily take off in the place. The team also discovered that Association of Luxury Bus Owners( ALBON), Kano State Branch, had already taken the Kano State Government to court over the park but the Governor defied the court and went on with his intentions.

The Igbo leaders in Kano lamented that the collateral casualty at the bus station could have been less had the governor not earlier ordered the closure of the back exit gate which connected the New Road to Ibo Road and as such when the blast occurred, there was no way for the other buses loaded with passengers to escape. The only exit being the Tudun Wada Road which connected the Airport road . The controversial bus park was an empty land sold to Anglican church fifty years ago and the church leased it to the luxury bus owners who developed the bus station to ensure greater security for non-indigenous travelers in the religious volatile state. The bus station is located in Sabon Gari, an area mapped out for strangers and non-indigenes . Therefore, the attempt by the State Government to forcibly convert the bus park to Islamic school is unfair as there are other empty lands all over Kano metropolis they can use for Islamic school.

Earlier on the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero was under fire by elements within Kano State Government and some notable contenders for the Emir-ship throne for providing palace guards to secure Ohaneze leaders when they visited Kano two weeks before the follow up team came. They derided the Emir for providing security for the Ohaneze chieftains, alluding that they should have procured their President Jonathan to secure them. The Emir equally sent his first son to condole with the Igbos after the bloody bus blast .

The follow up team reported their findings to appropriate security agencies and sent a report to the leadership of Ohaneze and select Igbo leaders. The Igbos in Kano lamented that in one year over 63 persons have been secretly executed by Boko Haram agents either in their shops, offices or homes and if the number of those who died through bombings is included, about three hundred lives have so far been lost. They called on the Igbo leadership to come to their rescue or else they will bear heavy arms for self protection.

It is expected that the Ime Obi Ohaneze will deliberate on the matter in consultation with Igbo leaders and if possible take the matter up with the Kano State Government and the presidency. The Igbo leadership have asked the Ohaneze leader in Kano to ensure that Igbos do not take laws into their hands until the issue is resolved with the appropriate authority. How quick the Igbo leaders will act on this sensitive issue is another kettle altogether.
Obinna Akukwe

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This is very bad news

pls let go back home and develop our land umunem. we have paid greater prize for the sustainance of nigeria unity than any tribe.

...i have always stated that boko haram is the military wing of IJN and Arewa consultative forum,most security personnels and government functionaries knows clearly well that boko haram has sympathy and sponsors amoung the muslim northern elites!if CAN president decides to speak out,they call him names,you can never suppress the truth,no amount of propaganda can suppress the truth, truth is permanent,posterity will judge them and those who are hiding the truth just for political interest and hatred for GEJ,will never know peace,as the blood of the innocent will be their albatross for life!El-rufai and his cohorts has since taken up the job of the spoke man of boko haram!the northern elites will soon realise that the fire of boko haram knows no friend,they kidnapped the octogenarian Ali Mongonu,whose next?

Maybe Rochas and Amaechi can throw more light on the actions (or inactions) of the kano state gov't, since they seem to be best mates with them and are even prepared to deputise for any Hausa/Fulani come 2015 presidential elections.

I don't know how plausible this story is, but nothing surprises me anymore -concerning the core north- when it comes to either their religion or schemes/shenanigans to 'recapture' gov't at the centre from 'those southern infidel twerps '.

UP ONE NAIJERIAH!

Orji o orji: pls let go back home and develop our land umunem. we have paid greater prize for the sustainance of nigeria unity than any tribe.

u are sick! What price are u payin dt u are over rating ur self?
Your people dt has refused to vacate the red zones, are they being forced not to?

Is it not the 'over-love' of money dt clouds their survival reasoning?

U open mouth dey talk nonsense as if an charity them dey run for there!!

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ahhh that was their plan

Scarpon: ahhh that was their plan

yes o

Obviously, this has been the reason why they did that. #operation-islamise-naija.

Bad things happen because good people keep quite. After the blast they had the stage, national and international. Why didn't the leaders there cry foul when the worlds attention was on the issue?

Its now glaring that d attack was d brainchild of d Gov. Its a pity. And some fools will be here blaming GEJ

That man will die a very painful death.

Total Speechless

Talk about reclamation of land

Who cares, if una lik mk una convert am 2 Bokoharam Judiciary Head Quarters (BJHQ). It doesnt prevent Jesus from being d christ

Mission accomplish no 1

i"m still wonder why ibo"s want to die in BOKO ZONE.South west are very peaceful why you pple can"t leave them with their character,there is fire on the mountain,i believe "There Is No Place Where God Is Not.

This is mission accomplished. #God is watching o#

How is this bad?
They planing to impact knowledge on people and your here saying is bad!?
Smh

When you pay visit to a man's house and his hospitality rate is poor, all nid do is dust urslf up and leave. These people are forgetting that witout these ibo trader n community kano state woudnt be as developed as it is ryt nw. Pls let's leave them to do what ever they want to avoid further casualties. Long live the igbo community!

outrage: How is this bad?
They planing to impact knowledge on people and your here saying is bad!?
Smh

to impact which kind of knowledge, to bomb people?

Uncanny Genius: That man will die a very painful death.

You and I know he'll not die unless someone is ready to pull the trigger

I still don't want to believe one side of the story until I hear from the other party. So for now, I comment my reserve.

Sorry Sir,
You are among of boko boyz on Nairaland

outrage: How is this bad?
They planing to impact knowledge on people and your here saying is bad!?
Smh

Really! It took u guys dis long to tell us that the governor threaten u lot a day before the bomb blast. Is this accusation genuine or you just lookin to start sometin. If what you accuse the governor for then it wasn't boko haram that bombed th station as una first claimed, this accusation if ryt shuld be taking to the top officials. OR are you guys vexing cos he wants the build an islamic school cos that's a different thing all together.

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This story is foolish n blatant lies.


This same governor publicly stated the no n names of casualties in that blast, n half of them were northerners, not igbo


Rubbish!!!

outrage: How is this bad?
They planing to impact knowledge on people and your here saying is bad!?
Smh

What Knowledge and is that d only available land in kano?? This is d same gov making all d noise against PIB.
I hope he wudnt border to contest come 2015. i only pity Ameachi et al.

Im not suprised, is more or less like an open secret, everybody knows that Rabiu Kwankwaso led Kano Government had a hand in that bomb attack.

OYA!! ALL D ABOKIS IN D SOUTH! I GIVE U PPLE.12hrs 2 EVACUATE COZ WE WANT TO USE OUR LAND o.......or else.hmmmm..or else....una no go reach home safely. What is even in the north sef. Dat igbo pple are still dere. Imagine una c somaila una dey fly enta dere or u pple dnt knw road to ur village again? Speaking for th ohaneze